Mists of Pandaria - Blizzcon 2011 - Monk 2

They released some info on some of the abilities of the monks:

Level 1 AbilitiesJab 40 Chi - Melee Range, Instant
Requires Stance of the Drunken Ox, Stance of the Fierce Tiger.
You jab the target, dealing 5 damage and generating 1 light force and 1 dark force.

Tiger Palm 1 Light Force - Melee range, instant
Requires Stance of the Drunken Ox, Stance of the Fierce Tiger.
Deals 10 Physical damage, deals 5 additional damage if the target is above 50% health.

Level 2 AbilitiesRoll 50 Chi - Instant
Roll a short distance.

Level 3 AbilitiesBlackout Kick 2 Dark Force - Melee range, Instant
Kick with a blast of energy, causing 28 physical damage to an enemy target. If the target is killed by blackout kick, you are returned 1 Dark Force.
Level 5 AbilitiesFlying Serpent Kick 8-40 Yards range, 25 Seconds Cooldown, Instant.
Soar through the air towards a targeted enemy, knocking them down and stunning them for 2 seconds.
Spinning Crane Kick Instant, 2 Lights and Dark Forces
Requires Stance of the Drunken Ox, Stance of the Fierce Tiger.
You spin while kicking in the air, dealing 23 damage every 1 second to all nearby enemies within 8 yards. Movement speed is reduced by 30%, last 6 seconds.
Level ?? AbilitiesStatue of the Jade Serpent 5 Sec Cast
Summon a statue at the target location. Anytime you deal damage, a nearby friendly target within 20 yards of the statue will be healed. You can have up to 3 Jade Dragon Statues active at a time.

The moves:

Looking forward to tryout this class. I do wonder how the moves will look on the other eligible races.


I read some stuff might become account wide, things like achievements, I hope the rewards become account wide as well then.
Would be cool then if you switched main and you got that "special" mount for doing a series of achievements you can still use it.
At the moment I got 2 Frostbrood Vanquisher mounts, on my warrior and on my paladin. And now I mostly play my horde characters and none of those are being used.

Also noticed in the Q&A that someone asked for an expansion on character slots.

I have 10 characters, will you add an 11th slot so we can have all 11 classes? Not sure just yet, might keep the current character cap but let you have them on any realm, so you can have many many charaters on one realm.

I really hope i can get more slots on one realm so i can have my monk with the rest of my characters.

Mists of Pandaria - Blizzcon 2011 - Panda's & Monks

Woot new expansion announced. No surprise it's with the panda's though.

Pandaren Racials:

• Bouncy: reduces fall damage by half.
  Seems nice in some situations but don't think it will matter that much in raiding circumstances
• Inner peace: double rested XP.
  Cool while leveling but useless at max level?
• Gourmand: +15 to cooking.
  Will this matter in the end?
• Epicurean: double stats to food buffs.
  This one does sound awesome
• Quaking Palm: You touch a secret pressure point on an enemy target, putting it to sleep for 3 sec.
  Could be nice in pvp to "interrupt" some cast and leaving out a healer for a couple of seconds

Monk New Class

• Brewmaster - Tank spec
• Mistweaver - Healer, a healer who can stand up in melee and will let players experience a "new healing style"
• Windwalker - Melee DPS
• This is not a hero class, and it will start at level 1
• The class is very martial-arts based
• Lots of monk-only animations, the healer and tanks will have different stances they can stand in, etc ...
• Monk Races - All of them except Goblin and Worgens

Monk Equipment

• Leather Armor (Agility or Intellect)
• They hit a lot with hands and feet
• They will need weapons for some finishers: Staves, Fist Weapons
• They will also be able to use 1H Axe and maces, swords
• Healers will get off-hands, they don't want healers to use shields.

Monk Resources

• Chi (energy) slowly regenerates and is only used for your Jab and Roll abilities.
• Jab generates Light and Dark force, which are used for everything else. Some finishing move uses dark force, some use the light force.
• No auto attack! Devs want you to have this street fighter feel where you punch a lot

Pandaren Monk

The Mistweaver healer part looks really cool.
With the leather armor and 3 roles it does seem to look a bit like a druid on first sight, I really hope they can differentiate here. It does have new resources, looking forward to test those out.
And no auto attack -> loads of  keyboard smashing :P ?
I do hope they add more character slots as I'm currently full on Outland.


They released 2 nice looking video's.
Pandaren preview

Zones preview

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